STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1996 - SECT 27 Orders associated with parentage testing orders

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1996 - SECT 27

27 Orders associated with parentage testing orders

(1) If the Supreme Court makes a parentage testing order, the Court may make such other orders as it considers necessary or desirable:

(a) to enable the parentage testing procedure to be carried out, or

(b) to make the parentage testing procedure more effective or reliable.

(2) Some examples of the kinds of order that the Court can make under subsection (1) are as follows:

(a) an order requiring a person to submit to a medical procedure,

(b) an order requiring a person to provide a bodily sample,

(c) an order requiring a person to surrender a bodily sample previously obtained from that person or from another person (regardless of whether that other person is still living) that has been stored or otherwise preserved,

(d) an order requiring a person to furnish information relevant to the person's medical or family history.

(3) The Court may also make such costs orders as it considers just in relation to costs incurred in relation to:

(a) the carrying out of the parentage testing procedure or other orders made by the Court in relation to the parentage testing procedure, or

(b) the preparation of reports in relation to the information obtained as a result of the carrying out of the parentage testing procedure.

(4) In deciding whether to make an order under this section, the Court must:

(a) consider and determine any objection made by a party to the proceedings on account of medical, religious or other grounds, and

(b) if it determines that an objection is valid, take the objection into account in deciding whether to make the order.